Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management on Aug 21st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru In a speech recently on his government’s funding of the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunizations, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s delivered some welcome statements about the importance of transparency in global development aid [1].  Notably, all recipients of British foreign aid “must publish what they do, where they get their [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Mar 7th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas Before beginning our conversation, Deelip Saund showed me a brief video clip of one of many interviews that he had collected from his patients at Bayalpata Hospital. Many of them had never had an x-ray before. He said that their conditions and experience taught him more about his work. Yet he [...]
Posted in News, Patient Stories on Jan 24th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru A brave little four-year-old girl with a pink hairband twisted on the crown of her head, pink and purple polka-dotted shirt, and purple socks is sitting in the procedure room. She had fallen earlier that day while playing and hurt her right arm. She has a small abrasion over her cheek [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health on Mar 1st, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya has been awarded one of the first-round UpToDate International Grant Subscriptions! UpToDate is an online clinical reference software, commonly used in many American teaching hospitals, but rarely accessible in the developing world. Through an exciting new granting program, UpToDate has teamed up with the Global Health Delivery Project to provide free subscriptions [...]